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And even if that number were correct, it is really low. It would not do psychological harm to "treat them" (I really hope you just mean calling them him or her here not actually treating boys and girls differently) as their birth sex and may actually do more harm otherwise (making it more difficult for them to "change" back why they most likely get over the dysphoria).

(I really hope you just mean calling them him or her here not actually treating boys and girls differently)

Actually, in hearing trans perspectives, it almost seems as if treating boys and girls the same (i.e., not enforcing/creating gender roles) would be viewed as an erasure of trans people. In order for transgenderism to exist, basically, boys and girls need to be treated differently, and trans people need to be treated the "other way."

This is a really good example of a recent thread in r/asktransgender showing this. One of the top comments is:

Exactly this. For me (and maybe a lot of trans people), it's not the fact that my own private anatomy is not what I want. It's the enormous amount of expectations and norms and behavioural expectations that come with this particular set of genitals.

It's +15.

Basically debunks the weakly argued myth that it's about bodily dysphoria (bodily dysphoria seems to be the last "dysphoria" I ever see talked about, which is weird because they try very hard to "prove" transgenderism with it).

A number of other comments in the thread reiterate that it's not anatomy, it's roles. Having the sexual characteristics of whatever gender they want to be means nothing if they aren't treated like that gender (which must be different from how the other gender is treated).

n = 25 GIRLS. Extremely small sample, not even the sex that you are referring to (and people who claim that the characteristics of GID in males and females are the same are either ignorant or intellectually dishonest).

And yes, society does treat girls and boys differently. And it is WRONG. How is that hard to understand?